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Recent Episodes
Case 16
Annie Goes over the Falls
Filed under: women, daredevils
Annie Edson Taylor was an itinerant music teacher with an outrageous idea. She would go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, of all things! And never have to worry about money again…
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Miami's Master Thief
Filed under: crime, resorts
In its early days, Miami Beach attracted the country’s rich and the famous—and the thieves and con-men who created a stealthy new brand of “resort crime.”
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Smugglers of Portland, OR
Filed under: immigrants, urban
The wealthy merchants of Portland, Oregon, had a dirty secret in the late 1800s. There was profit to be gained through the smuggling of illegal immigrants and drugs.
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